Blanqui finishes the destruction of his theory of cooperation, which M.
Bob finishes his supper, rests his elbow on the table and his head in his hand, and commences disclosing his troubles to Franconia.
This prince," says Petrarch, "finishes nothing; one must go and seek him in the depths of barbarism.
The domain of mind extends as far as living nature goes, and it finishes only at the point at which organic life loses itself in unformed matter, at the point at which the animal forces cease to act.
He finishes his account with conscious simplicity: 'Which ways was occasion, as I think the said enterprises to fail of their purpose.
Prince finishes the story with applause of the boldness that 'should drive such great numbers of such furious creatures as English seamen.
So our biographer finishes with the triumphant axiom: 'Evil manners are often the parent of good laws!
He finishes the story by saying that they bought some for dinner at twopence apiece.
Our author finishes his remarks on Berrynarbour by quoting an epitaph then to be found in the church, a building which has a fine Perpendicular tower with battlement and pinnacles.
A little whisper floats about in the air that young Mrs. Grandon is not quite--but no one finishes the sentence that Laura so points with a shrug.
Violet finishes with blushes that make her more charming every moment; and Grandon finds a strange stirring in his soul as he watches this pretty girl.
It is at its maximum the instant the heart finishes emptying itself into the artery, and falls off steadily, reaching a minimum just before the next beat comes.
Although this finishes what we have to say about the movements of gases into and out of the body, the general subject cannot be completed without a word concerning the conditions that should be maintained in the air immediately surrounding us.
There are many kinds of varnishes and finishes made especially for application to exposed work, outside doors, etc.
A] I have some of these varnishes and finishes applied to inside work, and at present they show no signs of cracking, but I am afraid that it will be only a question of time when they too will crack.
Some of the hardwood finishes cracked in twenty-eight days after being applied, and their makers claimed that they could be used on outside work without danger of cracking.
It is a small novel which finishes love--and lays it away; which makes me love say one brave woman or mother in a book, and close her away for ever.
I always feel a little grieved and frustrated--as if human nature had been blasphemed a little in my presence--if a novel finishesits people or thinks it can.
It will be seen that on hard snow the runner, when travelling fast, will skid almost directly sideways for some distance from the spot where he actually finishes turning.
That finishes soldiering; now we've got to be labourers," the men grumbled as they straggled down the gully, helping any wounded they met on the way.
This finishes all he has to do, and he is then restored to favor.
He employs his brother John to write out the catalogue “perfectly alphabeticall,”[120] but he afterwards finishes it off with his own hand.
He finishes by mentioning that the general was named Gilbert, a man of colossal engineering skill, while the wounded officer was the Count Lory de Vasselot, grandson of one of Napoleon's most dashing cavalry leaders.
The doctor finishes right there, as the Americans say, and quite forgets to note the fact that he himself picked up de Vasselot under a spitting cross-fire, carried him into his own field hospital and there tended him.
One more Kitty, and thatfinishes me," he said, as he placed his stake in the pool.
And I finishes up by saying: "I like you a hull lot, Martha.
When he finishes you never seen such a change as had come onto the faces of that bunch.
When the lowering is completed, the designer finishes the drawing, and the cut is engraved.
The use of anything damp to clean the cuts when the pressman finishes his day's-work, is to be avoided; as a very small degree of damp is sufficient to cause the block to warp when left locked up over night in the form.
In which D'Artagnan finishes by at Length placing his Hand upon his Captain's Commission.
Madame le Marchand's Boca is a story which begins in Peru but finishes in an "Isle of Ebony," where the names of Zobeide and Abdelazis seem rather more at home; it is not without merit.
This finishesthe first part, but there are two more, which return to more ancient ways.
And when it finishes with a solemn function for the rise of the Nile, the least exclusively modern of readers may prefer Moore or Gautier.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "finishes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.